wraithlike

adjective

Definition of wraithlikenext
as in disembodied

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wraithlike
  1. ghostly
  2. incorporeal
  3. spiritual
  4. spectral
  5. formless
  6. phantom
  7. ethereal
  8. unbodied
Adjective
  • Many of the ghostly tales stem from claims of tragic deaths like drownings, hangings, murders and freak accidents.
    Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 27 Oct. 2024
  • This unsettling encounter has since become one of the many ghostly tales that add to the hotel’s haunting legacy.
    Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of ghostly
Adjective
  • If reason teaches that God is incorporeal, this means that God has no body; God does not physically see, nor do people see God.
    Randy L. Friedman, The Conversation, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The digital files are incorporeal.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
Definition of incorporeal
Adjective
  • What happened Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, resigned Tuesday amid intense pressure over his handling of a notorious child abuser.
    Rafi Schwartz, theweek, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Perhaps that’s why Sedona attracts such a strong enclave of New Age spiritual devotees searching for metaphysical energy in the vortexes allegedly sprinkled throughout its buttes and spires.
    Erin Strout, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
Definition of spiritual
Adjective
  • Sounding curiously spectral, the group is an essentially trippy element in the psychedelic swirl.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The Mexican researchers knew from research in other countries that successful detection with these techniques depends, in part, on being able to recognize how carcasses (and their spectral images) change in different soils and climates.
    Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of spectral
Adjective
  • There is clearly some strife between Ben and Louise, unresolved tension that is often exacerbated by Ben’s unemployment, along with his tendency to be a formless wet blanket.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Read: When growing up happens in a single conversation That loose sensibility does yield a film that can feel somewhat formless, playing like an eclectic album of snapshots from Chris’s life rather than a cohesive whole.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024
Definition of formless
Adjective
  • Only three episodes in, and Joe’s home-life pattern is already getting a bit redundant — pull up to the driveway with a melancholy mix of weariness and relief, get triggered into perceiving a phantom threat, draw a gun and almost shoot a family member.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The narrative arc of Ghosts follows a gentleman mysteriously endowed with supernatural abilities that frighten the residents of a phantom town.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of phantom
Adjective
  • Hanan Townshend’s score, with its heavy, rhythmic breathing and ethereal tones, cultivates a constant atmosphere of unease.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The spotlight comes in two forms: a literal cone of light, its ethereal glow coming without a clear source in the sky — and the nameless antagonist, which in true teen-horror fashion is the bloodied corpse of someone with a physical spotlight for a head.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of ethereal
Adjective
  • Though its name suggests a nootropics concern or a purveyor of networked exercise equipment, Superhuman’s unbodied offering is productivity software for the inbox.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 17 July 2019
  • Deleuze and Guattari, in Anti-Oedipus, see in it the model of a new kind of reasoning: schizoid, unbodied, and diffuse.
    Sam Kriss, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
Definition of unbodied
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